
\section{Organization Details}

\subsection{Organizers}

Moussa \textsc{Amrani} (primary contact) recently obtained his PhD from University of Luxembourg. His work focuses on formal semantics and analysis of model transformations languages, including languages with real-time features. During the past years, he also served as a reviewer of several venues related to modeling, model transformations and their analysis (\textsc{EcmFa}; \textsc{MoDeVVa}; \textsc{VaST}; \textsc{Icst}; \textsc{Isarcs}; \textsc{AMT}).

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%Leen \textsc{Lambers} is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the System Analysis and
%Modeling group of the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam in
%Germany.  Her research concentrates on formal modeling and verification. During
%the past three years Leen Lambers mainly worked on the development of new
%verification techniques for model transformations based on graph transformation.
%In particular, in her Ph.D. thesis she concentrated on the development of static
%analysis techniques for graph transformation. Leen Lambers served as program
%chair (GT-VMT 2012), program committee member (ICGT 2012, ICMT 2012, ACCAT 2012)
%or reviewer for several international journals, workshops  and conferences
%related to model transformation, graph transformation, formal modeling and
%verification.

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Eugene \textsc{Syriani} is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama.
His current research interests are model transformation, model-driven engineering methodology, simulation-based design, and code generation for mobile technologies.
Eugene has organized several international workshops/conferences such as Multi-Paradigm Modeling (MPM'11-12), Model Evolution (ME'11), Verification of Model Transformation (VOLT'11), and Model-Driven Languages and Systems (MoDELS'13).
He also served on the program committee of several conferences (AGTIVE, ECMFA, GraBaTs, ICMT, MoDELS, MPM) and is a reviewer for the international
journal in modeling and simulation (SoSym, Transactions on Simulation).
Eugene received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2011 and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2006, both at McGill University.
He was also a post-doctoral research fellow at McGill University working on the NECSIS project on the foundations of model transformations.
Eugene has also worked in several service-oriented software companies as a software engineer in Montreal, Canada for a decade spanning the health, pharmaceutical, airspace, advertisement and governmental domains.

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Manuel \textsc{Wimmer} is postdoctoral researcher in the Business Informatics Group (BIG) at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria where he received his Ph.D. in 2008. He has been a research associate in the Software Engineering Group at the University of Malaga in 2011/2012. His current research interests comprise model engineering in general and model transformation testing, reuse, and evolution in particular. He is/was involved in several national and international projects dealing with the application of model engineering techniques for domains such as tool interoperability, versioning, and Cloud computing. He is coauthor of the book Model-driven Software Engineering in Practice (Morgan \& Claypool, 2012) and coauthor of more than 130 scientific articles published in international conferences (e.g., TOOLS, MODELS, ASE, ICMT) and journals (e.g., ACM CSUR, SoSym, JSS, JOT, ASE). Furthermore, he has served as workshop co-chair for ICWE in 2012 and organized MDWE 2013. For a more detailed curriculum vitae and list of publications, please visit http://www.big.tuwien.ac.at/staff/mwimmer.

\subsection{Program Committee}

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Following is a tentative Program Committee.
%: persons marked with an asterisk ($\confirmed$) already confirmed their participation for this edition.
Several of the proposed members have been part of the PC of the previous editions of the \VOLT workshop.

\begin{itemize}
	\item M\'ark Asztalos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
	\item Dider Buchs (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
    \item Jordi Cabot (INRIA, France)
	\item Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada)
	\item Antonio Cichetti (Malardalen University in Vasteras, Sweden)
	\item Benoît Combemale (University of Rennes, France)
    \item Krystof Czarnecki (University of Waterloo, Canada)
	\item Jurgen Dingel (Queens University, Canada)
    \item Claudia Ermel (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
    \item Holger Giese (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany)
	\item Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen, Germany)
	\item Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, USA)
	\item Esther Guerra (Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid, Spain)
    \item Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK)
	\item Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
    \item Marouane Kessentini (University of Michigan, USA)
    \item Dimitrios S. Kolovos (University of York, UK)
	\item Akram Idani (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)
	\item Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid, Spain)
    \item Leen Lambers (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany)
	\item Yves Le Traon (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
	\item Tihamer Levendovszky (Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, USA)
	\item Levi Lucio (McGill University, Canada)
    \item Arend Rensink (University of Twente, Netherlands)
	\item Matteo Risoldi (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
	\item Rick Saley (University of Toronto, Canada)
    \item Martina Seidl (University of Linz, Austria)
	\item Shane Sendall (Snowie Group SA, Switzerland)
    \item Gabriele Taentzer (Philipps-Universit\"at Marburg, Germany)
	\item Antonio Vallecillo (Universidad de M\'alaga)
	\item Hans Vanghelhuwe (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
    \item D\'aniel Varr\'o (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
	\item Stephan Weissleder (Fraunhofer Institute FIRST, Germany)
\end{itemize}


\section{Dates and Scheduling}

The Workshop website will be ready and the first call for papers would be posted not later than March 1st, 2014. Papers should be submitted by May 30th, 2014, using Easychair. Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 24th, 2014 and camera-ready versions of the workshop papers are due on July 8th, 2014. This timetable is of course adaptable if there is a general procedure for all \STAF 2014 workshops and the associated policy.

The VOLT workshop is intended to last one day. We would prefer to hold the workshop non-overlapping with ICMT, ICGT, and TTC sessions.
